Exadelic by Jon Evans
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I need to be very clear on this book.

It's a wild SF ride. It's what you'd expect if you had a love-baby between Heinlein's later books and Blake Crouch, with a heavy dose of modern tech and "Oh my god, I can't believe he just took it there."

That's not to say that it entirely fits in today's book market.

Indeed, it tries to bring back the "oh, wow" and the "that's COOL" back into a jaded market.

So why would anyone not like this?

Perhaps it's for the same reason that many people do like it. Magic and technology, Telluric bombs? Magic/tech wars, combos, matrix-like allusions, multi-universes, etc? I mean, hell yeah. The novel jumps from a techno-thriller mystery to claustrophobic adventure to misaligned love story to epic-level conclusion without ever missing a beat. It's wild, crazy, and just plain fun.

So why wouldn't anyone like this?

Could be they just don't have the patience to enjoy change. And that's one thing this book has in spades: change, change, and more change. And that's rather the spirit of freedom, no?

Don't sleep on this.


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